A/N: Sorry if the story isn’t picking up fast, I am still trying to build the foundation. You could say that these few first chapters are a very long prologue. And to be honest, my aim isn’t to make this an action galore, but Lily’s daily life. That’s why I put a slice of life tag. If this was CD, given the chance, Lily would've killed Lucia and absorbed her divine spark…

Anyway, enjoy!

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“THE REAL DEAL!?”

My eyes widened in shock, and I couldn’t help but exclaimed loudly while pointing my finger at Lucia’s face. This sort of coincidence, should have been impossible, right?

“Fufu, that’s right. Though I am currently in a weakened state, my strength is actually still more than enough to blow some stuff.”

Blow some stuff, she said…

I still have some doubts about this whole situation. I mean, why would a Goddess appeared out of nowhere, and suddenly said that she was waiting for me for a long time? Moreover, why would a Goddess that was said to be the ruler of death had this pitiful appearance? And lastly, do they even exist?

It seemed that Lucia had caught on my doubts, but she was neither angry nor upset to me. That kind and gentle smile had never once disappeared from her beautiful face as she was gazing at me.

I hesitated for a bit, but then finally I asked her, “Are you real? I mean, is this even real?”

“Why would you think that this isn’t real?”

…Well, because I thought Gods and Goddesses actually doesn’t exist? Their names frequently appeared in all kind of religion teachings, but there was actually no record of them ever showing personally. All the time, it would be their emissaries that would appear and showed some kind of miracles to the people.

At first, I also believed those emissaries’ stories, since what they did was the stuff of legends. But after I was transported to this world… well, let’s just say that I could do the same stuff, or even better. And I could personally testify that I had never met a single God. Oh wait, does Lucia counts as one? If she was a real Goddess, I meant.

“I am sorry if my words would’ve hurts your feeling but, I don’t know, maybe it was because I have never met with another person that claimed to be a God or a Goddess —except you, Miss Lucia, you’re the first to do that. I have only heard stories about what Their emissaries does, but… that was just them using magic, right?

“I mean, I could have moved to another place in an instant by using teleportation, parting the sea by using water magic, summoned meteor rain out of thin air, cured sickness with a wave of hand —I have never tried this one, but I should be able to do it, and the list still goes on…”

Lucia smiled and said: “Little Lily, you have no need to use honorific when you’re talking with me, just think of me as an ordinary mortal you’ve met on the side of the road. Anyway, I have watched you all this time, and I definitely knows that you’re not that fond with speaking politely. In fact, it feels weird when you tried to do that.”

“Oh, okay then.” I nodded at her. Surprisingly, she’s pretty easygoing for someone who was supposed to be a Goddess, huh?

…..

“Wait, what did you just said before? You’ve watched me, all this time?”

Lucia was silent for a moment, then she began to talk again. However, instead of explaining about what she had just said, she…

“Gods and Goddesses does exist as a natural part of—“

“Hey, you’re blatantly ignoring my question now!?”

Like, what the heck, she shamelessly tried to change the topic after blurting out such important line!

“Lily, my dear. Sometimes, you have to let it go…”

“What the heck are you talking about!?”

I spreads out my arms in a frustrated manner. Lucia sighed for a moment, and then her expression turned serious. Somehow, I could feels that the atmosphere was changing.

Okay, that’s kind of scary, so stop that. Where has my easygoing-Lucia gone to? Now there’s only a serious-Lucia in front of me. While I was thinking about that, Lucia opened her mouth.

“What I am going to tell you is an important matter. This has everything to do with how you were summoned from Earth. But first, there’s something that I want to clarify.”

Her tone was so serious that I couldn’t help but gulped while I tried to concentrated myself to listen to her words. I don’t want to miss something important because of my carelessness, you know?

Yet what came out from her mouth was so different from what I imagine, to the point that I couldn’t even responded in the right way.

“….I am not a stalker.” She said in a serious tone.

“Eh? What?”

“I said, I am not a stalker.” She said once again, in an equally serious tone. Then she continues, “The people on the world you were transported to, drew the power of Gods and Goddesses with the means of magic formation. The formation, upon being activated, would then reached out to one of the many Gods and Goddesses in the universe. And then by borrowing their divine power, they were able to summon a person from another world, which is then they would act as a vessel for the divine power of the Gods and Goddesses.

“That’s why usually, their power would increase tremendously. In fact, it wasn’t their own power, but the divine power of the Gods and Goddesses. By chance, the kingdom that had summoned you before, forcefully drew my divine power to summon my emissary. Usually, a magic formation like that wouldn’t even be able to hope to reach someone of my level, and could only reach the lower level Gods and Goddesses. However, since I am in a weakened state…

“The point is, I actually don’t have any emissary.”

While it’s true that I was shocked at first by her wording, but I kept listening intently. And by connecting the dots, I could have already guessed what would had happened next.

“So, since you don’t have one, the magic formation was unable to summon anyone. But it still had to summon someone to be the vessel of your divine power. Because of that, the formation keeps searching for someone to be summoned, and eventually… it summoned me?” I asked.

At that, Lucia nodded.

“Indeed, it is so. And since you were summoned with my divine power, you had automatically become my one and only emissary. And since then on, our mind became connected. That’s why I said it before, that I have watched you all this time. I am sorry, but it was unintentional.”

I see, so it was like that. If she herself was doing that unintentionally, then I shouldn’t blame her. But now I fully understand about how I was summoned to another world, and how I was unable to return to my world. Turns out I need some kind of divine power to do that…

As I thought of that, Lucia muttered under her breath. It was so quiet that I could barely heard it : “……..*mumble* though that doesn't meant that I didn't enjoy it*mumble*”

“What is it?” I asked.

“Nothing.” She immediately replied in a deadpan voice.